It was the first time that Crystal had been treated like a princess.
Last night, Christmas eve, Chandler took her to the best restaurant in C City for dinner and then spent the night with her in the most luxurious presidential suite.
Actually, even Crystal herself wasn't sure about the reason why she had agreed to spend last night that way.
Was it because she had been always curious about the high-class lifestyle or she just wanted to spend the night with him? Was last night a date? She kept asking herself this question while her cheeks turned red.
"Miss Zhu, wake up.We're going to work."
Chandler, who had already put up his suit, turned around and saw that Crystal was in a daze.
"What are you thinking?"
"Oh, nothing"
Chandler stared at her face for a while and then laughed.
"Why are you blushing? Let me guess.Thinking about some man?"
"What? Don't talk nonsense.I...I was just thinking that you should be ashamed of what you did last night.You squatted on the side of the road and pretend to be sick!"
Crystal scolded him, which sounded like she was angry and embarrassed because Chandler had guessed out what she had been thinking.
Chandler thought about what had happened last night for a while and then admitted frankly, "You're right.That's sort of hooliganism"
Then he added, "I learned it from your friend Christina.It really works."
Patrick had mentioned it to Chandler and the other guys when they were drinking together that Christina would sit on the road directly to stop him from leaving.
Patrick had no choice but to come back and take care of her every time she did that.
Crystal thought it for a while.It was really something that Christina would do.
They left the hotel suite and took the elevator down together.
Chandler found that Crystal would be more relaxed when they talked about Christina.
They were the only ones in the elevator.
"Actually, I've seen Christina once when she was only this tall"
Chandler put his hand beside his knees.
"She was probably only three or four years old then."
"You are familiar with the Eisenhower family?"
Crystal took interest immediately.
"No, I was interviewing her grandfather as the representative of the student reporters"
Chandler was seven years older than Christina and Crystal, who were still in kindergarten at that time.
Christina's grandfather, General Eisenhower, had been highly respected in C City, who had been living a withdrawn life after retirement.
Although many people wanted to interview him, the only reporter he had agreed to meet in all these years were some junior students representing their school.
"I've never seen her grandfather"
When Crystal met Christina in high school, General Eisenhower had passed away.
"You don't need to see him in person.He and Christina have the same temper Chandler smiled as he said that.
"Christina must have just started her life in kindergarten at that time.
She was a cute girl with a round face, big black eyes, and two pigtails.
When we reporters were taking notes nervously, she ran to her grandfather, crying that other children had bullied her"
"Coward! If you get kicked, just kick them back!"
General Eisenhower's angry reply had shocked Chandler.
It was conceivable that this girl would grow up to be a female bandit under such education.
Crystal laughed happily.
"No wonder...It's all her grandfather's credits."
The door opened as the elevator arrived in the lobby.
Seeing how relaxed and delighted Crystal was, Chandler raised his eyebrow and smiled too.
"Miss Zhu, we're going to meet my client later.Be serious."
Crystal glanced at him, complaining, "You're so troublesome.Last second you told me to put away the bad face and now you say I'm not serious enough.It's so hard to be your assistant."
"I don't need an assistant when I meet with my clients.And also, my assistants are all men.They are not as slow as you women."
"You look down on women? I have to remind you that most of the chief secretaries and special assistants are women now"
Crystal was used to talking back to him like this.
"Female assistants.I'm afraid that they will get infatuated with me."
Chandler got into the car that had been waiting, turned around, and said with complicated feelings, "It will be even more troublesome if I fall in love with them too as time goes by.The car started to drive them towards the restaurant they had booked.Crystal was sitting next to him, but neither of them spoke anything again.Staring at his side face secretly, Crystal was a little upset.She couldn't stop thinking about the words he had just used, "infatuated"and "fall in love as time goes by ".
Was he implying that there was actually nothing romantic between them and that all of this was just her own wishful thinking?
"Why are you in a daze again?"
Before getting out of the car, Chandler ruffled her short hair deliberately.
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